David Bowie dominates the 2016 album charts so far this year

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Bowie has six albums in the top 40 so far this year (Source: Getty)

James Nickerson

While Adele takes the top spot for biggest album so far this year, it is David Bowie who has dominated the charts.

His last album, Blackstar, which was released days before he died, took second place in the album charts with 345,000 combined sales.

Adele's album 25 had combined sales of 406,000. Combined sales are based on physical, digital and streaming equivalent sales.